No one asked me but I will comment. What a tremendous contest! The conditions were among the best I have experienced in Lost Hills over a three day period. My models tend to do better in extreme conditions so this did not benefit me personally. But the level of excellent competition, great camaraderie and overall excellence on behalf of the contest directors and more importantly the “help” (people who would otherwise make their lives not worth living) made for a wonderful weekend! Some travelled from continents afar to give us hope for a Fabulous February to come.. See ya then.

Jack Murphy

Not Just Water

From:Jim Lueken

Not just water: I’m sorry but something else to consider when flying in high heat and dry conditions is your over all physical condition. We are all getting older and as such less active. This plays a big part in how one is affected by extreme weather. The better over all shape you’re in will help with dealing with weather issues. So get out there and run some laps! Just kidding…

Have fun, Jim

Free Flight Quarterly #65 has appeared

From: Sergio Montes

thanks

Free Flight Quarterly #65 has appeared. You can find the table of contents, cover and summary of articles in our website:

www.freeflightquarterly.com/wordpress

Sergio Montes

Dehydration

From:Martin Dilly

Dehydration

Regarding the problem of dehydration, the 2001 Free Flight Forum Report has an extremely thorough article on Improving Contest Performance Through Nutrition, by Paul Chamberlain, who is professionally a nutrition consultant. Copies are still available ( http://freeflight.bmfa.org/forum-reports-contents) and the article probably tells you all you’ll ever need to know about the subject.

Rather than Gatorade or other commercial drinks, Paul suggests either of these as being just as effective. I’ve used both and they appeared to work.

Option 1

100ml fruit juice: 900ml water: 1.5gram salt. Fruit juice provides potassium and small amounts of other electrolytes, plus fructose that helps with water absorption through the gut.

I’ve ordered 200 1/2A 126x70mm props the CL guys swear by. They are basically 5×2.75” and is what is recommended by the top name flyers. They will give you the 30K RPM they said your Cyclon or Fora would turn. Props are $5 each with a 5 order minimum and $5 shipping. Paypal is fine. They will be red or yellow, not the typical green. About 100 are accounted for so far. These sell for $8 at Hobby Club. gavoss@swbell.net 405 692-1200h or 405 590-4389c Central time 9 til 9

Start the day before

From:gliderbohm

Don Deloach taught me to beat dehydration at a contest by drinking more water than normal beginning a day or two BEFORE the contest. It is just to hard to keep up or catch up with the water you need during the event.